SALT 10g Release 3 (10.3) introduced the following features:

• Service Component Architecture (SCA) Programming

  SCA provides a new programming model that aims at simplifying component re-use and seamless communications between components. The SALT 10 g Release 3 (10.3) SCA container enables new programming model and leverages the most valued Oracle Tuxedo features (such as reliability, availability, scalability, and performance). SALT 10g Release 3 (10.3) introduces the following SCA features:

  • Client-side binding for SCA invocations over ATMI and SOAP
  • Server-side binding for serving SCA requests made over ATMI and SOAP
  • Client-side binding for SCA invocations from Java environments
  • Development and runtime tools: Commands to build and deploy SCA clients and servers as well as commands for runtime administration. For more information, see the SALT 10g Release 3 (10.3) Command Reference Guide
  • Authentication and authorization for SCA services
  • Global transactions
  • Thread-safe SCA/SDO clients and servers
  • SCDL schema validation
  • Support for simple data types
  • Support for complex data types using SDO
  • Automatic data transformation to/from Oracle Tuxedo buffer types
  • Support for multi-byte characters using multiple encoding
• Service Contract Discovery

  Automatically discover service contract information at run time. The generated information can be put into metadata repository automatically or to a file which can then be loaded manually into the metadata repository using the tmloadrepos utility. For more information, see Configuring SALT Applications in the SALT Administration Guide.

• Access Log for All Incoming Requests

  Assists Oracle Tuxedo client administrators to monitor application validity at runtime. You can record application high water client count, current client count, and named users.